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  title info:
    title: Regenerating Regional Culture
    sub title: A Study of the International Book Town Movement
  name:
    name part: Frank, Jane.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXVII, 285 p. 10 illus., 9 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book explores the significance of the international book town movement and its impact on contemporary society. It examines how book towns have emerged and how their culture and unique characteristics help to explain a steadily growing phenomenon that has enabled peripheral communities around the world to reclaim their economic futures and impact on the cultural sphere as increasingly powerful sites and sources of creativity. Regenerating Regional Culture assesses why, at a time when the book industry is experiencing a profound transformation, book towns are proliferating in Europe and across the globe. It acknowledges the role of the book as a catalyst for this significant cultural activity and development. The book is shown to be a unique and pivotal item of cultural consumption, a remarkable artefact and, more than ever before, a springboard for contemporary cultural debate. This work investigates how the reanimation of these 'down-on-their-luck' towns is attracting, through a combination of nostalgia, history and cultural heritage, a growing middle class cohort who seek both intellectual stimulation and opportunities for serious leisure and wellbeing. This book will prove to be a useful resource for understanding the impacts of book towns on art, culture and society while also offering insightful research for those involved in existing or future development of book towns and other community cultural projects.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Book Towns: Expanding Literary Connections -- 3. Hay-on-Wye: 'A Town of Travellers Who Stopped' -- 4. Slow Books: Book Towns as Third Places -- 5. Edge-of-the-map Locations: Outposts of Sustainable Culture -- 6. Sacred Objects and Magic Encyclopaedias: Books in Book Towns -- 7. Occasional Errata: Book Towns that Fail or Falter -- 8. Book Towns: An Unfolding Story.
  note: by Jane Frank.
  subject:
    topic: Culture
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Urban
  subject:
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Sports-Sociological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Books-History
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Culture
  subject:
    topic: Urban Studies/Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Cultural Management
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Sport and Leisure
  subject:
    topic: History of the Book
  classification: HM621-656
  classification: 306
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Sociology of the Arts
  identifier: 9783319650364
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65036-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 171129
    record change date: 20191026192028.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-65036-4